Suicide is sometimes an attractive alternative to all the stress and chaos of daily life. There is a sultry seduction of thinking of ending all the pain and other negative things.

It's attractive, but horrible at the same time. All I have to do is think about the time after the act, if I were ever to go through with it. I'd be found by my kids or my wife, my kids would be without a dad, my wife without a husband. They'd be left with nobody to support them financially, and I have no idea what would happen to them. Usually that's enough to snap me out of it.

Blue, I know you struggle with your relationship with your parents, because you've shared that before. If you're attracted by the thought of ending it all, just play the scene through your head of the hours and days and years afterward. It may be enough to let you see what a terrible situation it would create. Not for you, but for the others in your life. You're a good person, you're young, you have a tremendous amount of potential to give and share in this world. Ending it all would create a terrible loss.